US city’s year satisfactory with Republican brought in after big city upset (3,4)
I believe the answer is:
new york
'us city's' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'year satisfactory with republican brought in after big city upset' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'year' could be 'y' and 'y' is present in the answer.
'with' could be 'w' (abbreviation) and 'w' is present in the answer.
'republican' could be 'r' (political abbreviation) and 'r' is found in the answer.
'satisfactory' could be 'ok' (similar in meaning) and 'ok' is located in the remaining letters.
The remaining letters 'ne' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for new york that I've seen before include "Worn key (anag.)" , "City known as The Big Apple" , "Statue of Liberty city" , "City ''so good they named it twice''" , "US state, city" .)